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The influence of natural variability on extreme  monsoons in Pakistan             

The monsoons in Pakistan have been exceptionally harsh in recent decades, resulting in extraordinary drought conditions and record flooding events. The changing frequency of ex…

Positive Low Cloud Feedback Primarily Caused by Increasing Longwave Radiation from the Sea Surface in Two Versions of a…

Low cloud feedback in global warming projections by climate models is characterized by its positive sign, the mechanism of which is not well understood. Here we propose that the p…

Nearshore Macroalgae Cultivation for Carbon Sequestration by Biomass Harvesting: Evaluating Potential and Impacts with …

This study introduces an ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) approach: Nearshore Macroalgae Aquaculture for Carbon Sequestration (N-MACS). By cultivating macroalgae in nearsh…

A high-resolution seismic catalog for the Southern Apennines (Italy) built through template-matching

The incompleteness of earthquake catalogs is a well-known issue caused by our technical limitation in detecting the small- to very small-magnitude seismicity falling near or below…

Inheritance of potato processing traits in a half-diallel breeding population segregating for Columbia root-knot nemato…

The Columbia root-knot nematode ( Meloidogyne chitwoodi ) is a destructive soil borne pest that can cause serious economic damage to potato tubers within infected, unfumigated fie…

Overriding plate thickness as a controlling factor for trench retreat rates in narrow subduction zones

Slab width plays a major role in controlling subduction dynamics and trench motion. However, observations on natural narrow subduction zones do not show any correlation between sl…

Identifying the most (cost-)efficient regions for CO2 removal with Iron Fertilization in the Southern Ocean

Abstract Ocean Iron Fertilization (OIF) aims to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere by stimulating phytoplankton carbon-fixation and subsequent deep ocean carbon seque…

Identification and prioritization of affecting environmental factors of sustainable development on decision-making in p…

Considering economic, social, and environmental aspects of contemporary sustainable development, not enough attention has been paid to the environmental aspects in current design …

Impacts of Climate Change on the Ascension Island Marine Protected Area and its ecosystem services

This is the first forecast of marine circulation and biogeochemistry for the Ascension Island Marine Protected Area (MPA). MPAs are a key management tools used to safeguard ocean …

Inversion of Two-dimensional Electrical Resistivity data using Convolutional Neural Networks (U-Net

The interpretation of ERT data requires inversion, which is challenging due to its nonlinear and ill­posed nature. We aim to solve the inverse problem using a machine learning t…

Generalizing Reservoir Operations using a Piecewise Classification and Regression Approach

Inflow anomalies at varying temporal scales, seasonally varying storage mandates, and multi-purpose allocation requirements contribute to reservoir operational decisions. The diff…

Upper mantle anisotropy and flow beneath the Pacific Ocean revealed by differential PS-SKS splitting

Upper mantle anisotropy has been mapped beneath continents at high spatial resolution. Beneath the oceans, however, shear wave splitting constraints on upper mantle anisotropy are…

Earthquake nucleation characteristics revealed by seismicity response to seasonal stress variations induced by gas prod…

Deterministic earthquake prediction remains elusive, but time-dependent probabilistic seismicity forecasting seems within reach thanks to the development of physics-based models r…

Toward a Better Understanding of Wildfire Behavior in the Wildland-Urban Interface: A Case Study of the 2021 Marshall F…

On 30 December 2021, the Marshall Fire devastated the Boulder, Colorado region. The fire initiated in fine fuels in open space just southeast of Boulder and spread rapidly due to …

Enhancing regional seismic velocity model with higher-resolution local results using sparse dictionary learning

We use sparse dictionary learning to develop transformations between seismic velocity models of different resolution and spatial extent. Starting with results in the common region…

Uncovering the dynamics of multi-sector impacts of hydrological extremes: a methods overview

Hydrological extremes, such as droughts and floods, can trigger a complex web of compound and cascading impacts due to interdependencies between coupled natural and social systems…

Urban FEW Nexus Model for the Otun River Watershed

The food-energy-water (FEW) nexus has emerged as an alternative to improve the management of the resources used in the food, energy, and water systems. However, there are limited …

Effects of composite rheology on plate-like behavior in global-scale mantle convection

Earthâ\euro™s upper mantle rheology controls lithosphere-asthenosphere coupling and thus surface tectonics. Rock deformation experiments and seismic anisotropy measurements indica…

Stokes drift should not be added to ocean general circulation model velocities

Studies of ocean surface transport often invoke the “Eulerian-mean hypothesis”: that wave-agnostic general circulation models neglecting explicit surface waves effects simulate th…

Critical role of vertical radiative cooling contrast in triggering episodic deluges in small-domain hothouse climates

Seeley and Wordsworth (2021) showed that in small-domain cloud-resolving simulations the pattern of precipitation transforms in extremely hot climates (≥320 K) from quasi-steady t…

Spatial response of Greenland's firn layer to NAO variability

Firn on the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) buffers meltwater, and has a variable thickness, complicating observations of volume change to mass change. In this study, we use a firn mod…

Estimation of the snow water equivalent using Muon Scattering Radiography

Despite the important hydrological and ecological implications of the snowpack, its real time monitoring remains challenging. This is particularly relevant in relation to the Snow…

Constraining Sector-specific CO2 Fluxes using Space-based XCO2 Observations over the Los Angeles Basin

The concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in Earth’s atmosphere is increasing due to human activities and the resulting effects on the global climate system have initiated sev- er…

Characterizing Mesoscale Cellular Convection in Marine Cold Air Outbreaks with a Machine Learning Approach

During marine cold-air outbreaks (MCAOs), when cold polar air moves over warmer ocean, a well-recognized cloud pattern develops, with open or closed mesoscale cellular convection …

Nucleation of laboratory earthquakes: quantitative analysis and scalings

Decades of seismological observations have highlighted the variability of foreshock occurrence prior to natural earthquakes, making thus difficult to track how earthquakes start. …

Historical Trends in Ocean Heat, Carbon, Salinity, and Oxygen Simulations: Impact of a Changing Ocean Circulation

Examination of historical simulations from CMIP6 models shows substantial pre-industrial to present-day changes in ocean heat (ΔH), salinity (ΔS), oxygen (ΔO2), dissolved inorgani…

Inferring the Mean Effective Elastic Thickness of the Outer Ice Shell of Enceladus from Diurnal Crustal Deformation

The thickness of the outer ice shell plays an important role in several geodynamical processes at ocean worlds. Here we show that observations of tidally-driven diurnal surface di…

Recreating observed convection-generated gravity waves from weather radar observations via a neural network and a dynam…

Convection-generated gravity waves (CGWs) transport momentum and energy, and this momentum is a dominant driver of global features of Earth’s atmosphere’s general circulation (e.g…

Radio Instrument Package for Lunar Ionospheric Observation: A Concept Study

The lunar ionosphere is a ~100 km thick layer of electrically charged plasma surrounding the moon. Despite knowledge of its existence for decades, the structure and dynamics of th…

Cloud Macro-and Microphysical Properties as Coupled to Sea Ice Leads During the MOSAiC Expedition

This study presents the micro- and macrophysical cloud properties as a function of their surface coupling state with the sea ice during the wintertime of the MOSAiC field experime…

Cascading of Seasonal and Interannual Variability Between Upper Ocean Processes and the Slope Current in the Cosmonaut …

The current system in the Cosmonaut Sea off East Antarctica is subjected to large-scale climate change, which in turn affects the nutrient availability and productivity of the reg…

Instability and mesoscale eddy fluxes in an idealized 3-layer Beaufort Gyre

We study the impacts of a continental slope on instability and mesoscale eddy fluxes in idealized 3-layer numerical model simulations. The simulations are inspired by and mimic th…

A Sandwich With Water: Bayesian/Frequentist Uncertainty Quantification under Model Misspecification

In this paper we review basic elements of Frequentist inference, specifically maximum likelihood (ML) and M-estimation to point out a critical flaw of Bayesian methods for hydrolo…

Temperature control on deep tectonic tremor belt in the Nankai subduction zone

Deep tectonic tremors occur in the Nankai subduction zone, defining a belt-like zone with a width of a few ten km located at depths between 30 and 55 km along upper surface of the…

Polar aerosol rivers: detection, characteristics and potential applications

Aerosols play a key role in polar climate, and are affected by long-range transport from the mid-latitudes, both in the Arctic and Antarctic. This work investigates poleward extre…

An isotopologue-enabled model (∆ 47 , ∆ 48 ) for describing thermal fluid-carbonate interaction in open and closed diag…

The geochemical and ultrastructural properties of thermally altered skeletal carbonate are expected to be compromised to varying degrees by disequilibrium processes between solids…

Constraining the mechanisms of aeolian bedform formation on Mars through a global morphometric survey

Aeolian processes on Mars form a distinct class of meter-scale ripples, whose mechanisms of formation are debated. We present a global morphometric survey of bedforms on Mars, add…

Constraining the uncertainty associated with sea salt aerosol parameterizations in global models using nudged UKESM1-AM…

Sea salt is the largest source of natural aerosol in the atmosphere by mass. Formed when ocean waves break and bubbles burst, sea salt aerosols (SSA) influence Earth’s climate via…

Passive remote sensing of the atmospheric boundary layer in Colorado's East River Valley during the seasonal change fro…

The structure and evolution of the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) under clear-sky fair weather conditions over mountainous terrain is dominated by the diurnal cycle of the surfa…

Estimating uncertainty in simulated ENSO statistics

The use of large ensembles of model simulations is growing due to the need to minimize the influence of internal variability in evaluation of climate models and the detection of c…

Understanding advances and challenges of urban water security and sustainability in China based on water footprint dyna…

Sustainability of China’s numerous cities are threatened by both quantity- and quality-induced water scarcity, which can be measured by the water footprint from a consumption (WFc…

Simulating the effects of regional forest cover changes on mid-latitude boundary-layer clouds.

Evidence has been provided that land-cover changes such as deforestation can have an impact on cloudiness and precipitation. However, conflicting results have been obtained at dif…

Development and Application of Artificial Neural Network Model for Optimal Operation of a Reservoir System Towards Meet…

Nine different ANN models are developed for the Kangsabati reservoir, India with a various sets of input and target variables. A three-layer fully connected feed forward multilaye…

Impacts of tidally driven internal mixing in the Early Eocene Ocean

Diapycnal mixing in the ocean interior is largely fueled by internal tides. Mixing schemes that represent the breaking of internal tides are now routinely included in ocean and ea…

Tailored forecasts can predict extreme climate informing proactive interventions in East Africa

This commentary discusses new advances in the predictability of east African rains and highlights the potential for improved early warning systems (EWS), humanitarian relief effor…

Observations of fog-aerosol interactions over central Greenland

Supercooled fogs can have an important radiative impact at the surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet, but they are difficult to detect and our understanding of the factors that contr…

Variability of the Gravitational Constant G

A brief history of the gravitational constant G is made and the current value is given. G for the Earth is calculated at perihelion and aphelion, resulting in different values. G …

Asymmetric dependence in hydrological extremes

Extremal dependence describes the strength of correlation between the largest observations of two variables. It is usually measured with symmetric dependence coefficients that do …

Determining Undersampled Coastal Tidal Harmonics using Regularized Least Squares

Recent observation reveals a stunning fact that coastal tides are experiencing rapid change in the last century in the world. High-accuracy tidal-level data is needed to achieve a…

Snow Loss into Leads in Arctic Sea Ice: Minimal in Typical Wintertime Conditions, but High During a Warm and Windy Snow…

The amount of snow on Arctic sea ice impacts the ice mass budget. Wind redistribution of snow into open water in leads is hypothesized to cause significant wintertime snow loss. H…

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